MOVIES
����DON’T WORRY DARLING
Theaters
September 23
Director Olivia Wilde follows up her critically
acclaimed feature debut “Booksmart” with
this period thriller about a 1950s housewife
who begins to suspect that the perfect
suburban life her husband’s mysterious
job provides for her — and her husband’s
mysterious job itself — may hide a sinister
truth. Alice (Florence Pugh) and Jack (Harry
Styles) are lucky to be living in Victory, the
experimental company town housing the
men who work for the top-secret Victory
Project and their families. Life is perfect, with
every resident’s needs met by the company.
All they ask in return is unquestioning
commitment to the Victory cause. But when
cracks in their idyllic life begin to appear,
exposing flashes of something much more
sinister lurking beneath the attractive façade,
Alice can’t help questioning what they’re
doing in Victory, and why. Just how much is
Alice willing to lose to expose what’s really
going on in paradise?
����SALEM’S LOT
Theaters
September 9
Ben Mears is a writer who returns to his
childhood home of Jerusalem’s Lot in search
of inspiration, only to discover his hometown
is being preyed upon by a vampire, leading
him to band together with a ragtag group to
fight it. This horror film, based on Stephen
King’s 1975 novel of the same name, stars
Lewis Pullman, Makenzie Leigh, Bill Camp,
Spencer Treat Clark, Pilou Asbæk, John
Benjamin Hickey, Alfre Woodard and William
Sadler.
����THE WOMAN KING
Theaters
September 16
Historical epic inspired by true events that
happened in the Kingdom of Dahomey, one
of the most powerful states of Africa in the
18th and 19th centuries. Viola Davis plays
Nanisca, a general of the all-female army of
the Agojie (also known as Amazons). When
colonizers threaten to take over their home,
Nanisca must lead a band of ruthless, women
warriors to victory.
54 COBB LIFE | SEPTEMBER 2022